Top Ten Best Books of All Time

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The Top Ten

1The Bible

Even if you aren't religious the bible is a very good book with many wonderful life lessons about love and forgiveness and brotherhood. Also the stories themselves in the bible are great with interesting plots and characters. Just because you aren't a Christian doesn't mean it's not a wonderful book, just like people like Greek myths but don't believe in them. I myself am Christian but I am enthralled by the stories. The bible is full of interesting stories and good messages despite your personal beliefs.

The Bible is one of the oldest books of all time yet is read by millions upon millions daily. It carries life lessons such as "love one another" and "do unto others as you would have them do unto you. " If people followed those maxims, the world would be a much better place.

The Bible is the most important book. It is the only book that can truly change someone or turn someone's life around. It is the word of God. It is the only book that matters. Everyone should read it more. Many people judge it because of their negative false opinion of Christianity. But they don't know what Christianity is until they read the Bible. It is the most amazing material thing. It's not about religion and having a boring miserable life because you have to be a Christian. It is the word of God and it is all truth.

The "HOLY BIBLE"IT is holy, because it contains the words of God. It is the great true history not just a story of the people of God. It is the story of our salvation, from the creation of the first human beings, the life of Jesus as our saviour, the works of the apostles and the Christians after Jesus resurrection and ascension, and what will happen on the second coming of Christ. So the BIBLE is not just an ordinary book, but it is the BOOK of books and the BOOK of our SALVATION!

You still think Hunger Games and Diary of a Wimpy Kid is better? Tell me after I go to the HARRY POTTER AMUSEMENT PARK at Universal Studios. Did Hunger Games have an amusement park? Does Diary of a Wimpy kid have kids growing up with Harry and his friends? No. Why is our generation so messed up to vote for something as messed up as Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Greg Heffley will always be wimpy and not popular. The End. Katniss and Peeta get together. The End. Harry and his friends live on to become proud parents and help their children grow up to be exemplary heroes while also learning lessons about friendship, love, and good.J.K. rowling was the first person to get rich by writing. Emma Watson is cherished world wide along with Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe.

As much as I love the Hunger Games... I was scrolling down to click Harry Potter - Disneylover

I have NO idea how The Hunger Games is ahead of this amazing book. The Hunger Games was a piece of garbage (Sorry THG fans :/) in my opinion. I felt nothing for Katniss and I thought she was very emotionless and angry. Harry on the other hand had real emotions. And he was not a perfect character, like sometimes he would get mad or be kind of rude to his friends. But he also could be a friendly, kind hero. He was a big motivation in my life. As he started off as a sad child who got bullied a lot and was abused by his aunt and uncle until one day he found out he was a wizard and got to leave. It shows how anything can happen and not to be sad about things that can change. And also the humour was awesome! (Weasley twins for the win) And Jk Rowling somehow made things connect to you so much and make the people in he stories feel so real. - AveryLia

Thumbs up even though he didn't actually leave until he grew up.

Seriously? "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" above "Harry Potter"? I know you're trying to be funny by voting for "Wimpy Kid", but can we vote for the actual good literature here? Harry Potter is a book enjoyed by billions of fans worldwide! It has a sensational plot, and indescribable characters, but what makes it awesome is the world it creates. It makes you want to live in the Wizarding World and feel the magic of it all. It has been made into an entire franchise and captured the imagination of everyone. JK Rowling is a genius.

This is my favorite book ever! I also like Wonder and the Bible, but the Deathly Hallows is great!

I can't believe this isn't number 1. This book is absolutely amazing in just every way possible. Every single character, however minor, becomes someone of great importance and learns a very important life moral. Tolkien's world of Middle-Earth is the best fictional world ever created. I don't think the Bible should be over this masterpiece, since only a set percentage of the population actually believes in the Bible anyway. Any of Tolkien's works, though, can appeal to anyone. I first read this book when I was 12 years old and I still have maps of Middle-Earth and elvish family trees plastered over my walls. I think Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is so inspiring and magical it should be always be considered the best book ever. I might sound biased but if you read this book you would be biased towards it too.

Tolkien really was the master. These books have everything. Light, dark, touching, pounding suspense, pure epicness, magical/mystical realms, and bittersweet so strong it will to kill you to read. There is also only one romance chapter. All if his species and languages are so marvelously crafted. Every time you learn a new fact about little details in the books, you get so much more mind blown over how much of a genius this guy was. And the books themselves are almost worth the read just because of the language. Tolkien could craft English like no other. The descriptions and poems are gorgeous! No other books can beat this series.

Truly the most perfect book in existence. It has a little bit of everything for all different people and the characters are amazing. Tolkien created the most beautiful fictional universe and middle earth feels so real somehow. The fact that the hunger games, which us about kids killing each other and a bad love triangle can possibly be above a book that is about how "even the smallest person can change the course of the future" and an adventure to destroy evil seriously disturbs me. Also the bible? Really?

The most popular book of the 20th century excluding the bible (and it was only written halfway through) - giga

It's a pretty good book but it definitely not as good as lord of the rings. Lord of the rings is just so original, it even has its own language and is much longer and complex then just kids killing eachother and people stopping them from having more kids killing eachother. It's not even the best in the hunger games series, I think catching fire is the best. I am not saying it's a bad book but lord of the rings is still so well known after a long time. This will probably only be known for a couple years, not decades. I also think that Harry Potter should be above this, I think that Harry Potter also has a better story because it has more to it and is in seven long books, which is a lot of story. The movie for the first one wasn't that good. But the second one was. Anyway, it's not the worst book to have in 2nd if twilight was in second I would be really really angry at this list. Twilight doesn't deserve to be in millionth place, it's just awful

If you like this you people should read BATTLE ROYALE! I used to think this book was the best book ever. Then I read battle royale. Even though it was written 9 years before this, it is better. Battle royale has 42 teenage contestants with no prior training. The program is a complete surprise to them. They are also from the same high school class so instead of a bunch of random kids it's friend against childhood friend. It vividly describes each contestants death rather than just saying " the main character heard a cannon" and not giving you any details of who died and why. Also there are forbidden zones that are added over time and if you get caught in one the collar on your neck explodes. Plus the government doesn't care if there is a winner or not. If nobody dies within 24 hours then all the collars will detonate. Plus some of the players get really screwed up in the head.Hunger games is just a toned down version of battle royale.

Best book ever, it has fantasy, action, adventure, drama, mystery, and a somewhat feel of science fiction. It gets its fantasy because it is all fake, its action by having sudden events filled with adventure, giving the book its adventure, it gets its drama from deaths of important people that you only know for a couple hundred pages of a book, and it gets it's mystery from the parts of the book that you and the main character don't know whats going to happen next, giving you that on the edge action and mystery feel. The story gets the science fiction from the fact that it is like what might happen in the future if we keep watching reality T.V. shows and what might happen if we worship them so much that our capital, d.c., might have an uprising against us. That hasn't happened yet, so it is currently fiction, and it seems like something that would be really crazy if it did happen, so it gives the book that science fiction feeling in general. I just love this book, I have read it ...more

I was reading this book and I was metaphorically in it by the first page, but then my parents snatched it off me saying " you're too young". - Shamo24

To all of those 12 year olds voting for 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', grow up and read a proper book like this. Completely changed my perception of the world.

This site is just flooding with so many brain dead kids. Of course, some of the novels in modern times are (were) great, I don't argue on it. But seriously, The Lord of the rings better than books like this one, 1984, and books that can shocked the world like animal farm, on the origin of species, communist manifesto, the iliad and Odyssey by Homer, the Divine comedy, was and peace, Hamlet by Shakespeare (you know Shakespeare, right? ), Ulysses, and the list go on... And rank's title says BOOKS, not just novels. If you're not into literature, not vote on it, simple as that.

Basically, the real list starts at 7. Not saying any of the books listed above is bad, but come on. You can't compare teenage-friendly books to this masterpiece.

Really? I am disappointed. This thing hardly counts as a book. Its whole point is to be funny. There's no real plot, no real character development, no real content. There are so many better books out there.

How does the crap sell so well? All the books have the same formula. - Money1208

When I was merely six, I was just a homeless child on the streets. My parents had died, I had to fend for myself, begging for spare change, living on the leftovers of Happy Meals I found in rubbish bins (though I was far from happy). I was unwanted, insignificant. But that all changed one day. A school group full of ten year old boys and girls were walking past me one day. Nothing really new, but one of them dropped a bright red book that caught my eye. Curious, I picked it up. The book was titled: "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". I began to read it, and my life was completely transformed. It taught me good morals and the joy of living and helping others much better than the bible ever will. I changed as a human after reading that book. I started helping other homeless people on the streets. I grew up as a leader of all of them, being kind to everyone. I became popular among even the non-homeless community, and earned loads of money, which I shared with my army of homeless. I saved up my ...more

Mate, if you read it when you were 6, you would be maximum 16 years old now. You're not a millionaire, father of five. - Fredfred101

This is such a mismatched excuse for a book. It has very low moral values and no plot at all. A structured and well done book has a plot and some sort of a moral value to it and the book misses both of those marks by a mile! So frustrating that kids enjoy this crap! People wonder why kids are starting to be all messed up: they read Diary of a Wimpy Kid and get no positive lessons out of it. I have read the series and even when I was little I had the hardest time enjoying them. I just never understood why all of the kids at my school had liked it so much. And another bad thing about this series is that it is basically just a cash grab. The eleventh book is about to come out and it's supposed to take place only in middle school and guess what TEN BOOKS AFTER THE ORIGINAL: IT STILL TAKES PLACE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL! WHAT? There's only eleven books (which by the way get even worse the more books that come out) so that the author can get the money that he doesn't deserve from these piles of ...more

Awesome characters and personalities, cool twists, saddest deaths, and the Cornucopia and the arena is so awesome! - officialstudyqueen

I actually thought this book was better than The Hunger Games, or the one she wrote before this, this book and this movie are so well written and acted. This book is just amazing!

Personally, this was better than The Hunger Games, in my opinion it was fresh yet still went along the same guidelines as The Hunger Games does. This is one of the few sequels that improve after the first book. 10/10.

This is the absolute best. If you read the first book you will be absolutely blown away by this one.

It got really repetitive for me especially with the overuse of the word "phony". It felt more like Salinger himself was going off on rants himself, and I don't mean that in a good way. He hasn't allowed for a movie adoption of the book because he didn't want to be a sell out to Hollywood. So in a way it made me feel as if the book was a little too biased in one way. At a point, I got tired of the whole "phony" garbage and ironically, the book itself felt very "phony." To me, it felt like it was trying too hard to push the idea of phoniness and at times it felt to me that he was finding the smallest flaws in society to rant about. The movie example comes to mind. I feel that society does have flaws and people do act phony in society, but at the same time, individualism does exist and always has existed. While people do act phony, I don't think it's necessarily bad that this happens. Sometimes it's tough to be yourself and I don't think it's fair to say ...more

Whoever made this list is a phony! - Graham

This is obviously a list made by pretty simple minded people, there are some amazing books out there, and the fact that the diary of a wimpy kid has been ranked over catcher in the rye is very very sad

I'm blaming this book for killing John Lennon as an influence for the killer.

The Newcomers

This book is amazing! It shows how anyone can make an influence, and it is really enjoyable and heartwarming, although sad at times. It is a great read for anyone. - rbits

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The Contenders

11The Fault in our Stars - John Green

I like Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns better than this book. This is a great book but the others are better. I'm about to begin reading Let it Snow.

Loved this book. It's my all time favorite. The author really knows how to step into someone else's shoes. Also, he knows that teens like reading about.

An Instant, Power classic, A brilliant plot and Very original and flawed love story. Almost perfect and very likable, which has Fans demanding more. John Green is already a master of Literature

-Austin Kelly

I lvoe this book, and every other book he has ever written, but still I think this one is the best. It's just so, so, so, so... THere is truly no word for what this book makes you feel, it's heart-wrenching yet inspiring, sad yet happy, it's every paradox and I love it so much.

I just started on reading the Harry Potter series and right now I feel like that I would like this book better than the last, because my most favorite Harry Potter movies is The Prisoner Of Azkaban, The Goblet Of Fire, and The Order Of The Phoenix.

The best book ever sorry god it is more interesting than the bible for me and this book The Prisoner of Azkaban the worst Harry Potter movie Seller is the best Harry Potter and best book ever with The escaper of Azkaban the wizard prison Sirius Black is who everyone thinks helped Voldemort kill James and Lily Potter is now apparently after Harry Potter, harry must be safe but what happens when there is a traitor in the mix and someone is to be killed who was falsely accused. Who is the traitor and can they find him before it is too late.

Um... You like Harry better than God? I'm a Harry fan as frantic as you are, but I'm not saying that Harry is better than God! - DontMakeARookieMistake

Amazing book! Fantastic! A work of genius! Er... I might be exaggerating.

In my opinion, it's the worst book in the Harry Potter series. It's purpose is to bring Sirius into the book, and that could be done in a chapter or 2 - Ravenclaw12

Good grief, I love this book so much. It's got such great lessons in it, amazing character development, it's perfectly paced, and who could forget the magic of the main character's witty, sarcastic, and hilarious narration? I can't even... no. I can't describe the feeling it gives me every time I pick it up; when I can leave reality for a while, and enter the world of Percy Jackson, a hero, but one who's just like me. He deals with the same problems in life as we do today along with his demigod problems, but he approaches them so wisely, with his head held high, and through it all, he's got his friends' backs all the way. The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series is my sanctuary, where I can go on a roller coaster ride of excitement, while being guided through it all by Percy, the perfect narrator, and a great friend. It's a great work of literature, and it is by far, my personal favorite book, tied at first place with four other books. And, yes, they are the other four books in the ...more

This series is more then just a couple of books stuffed together. They are a life, a story, a place where our imaginations can go and stay for a while. It's the place where I grew up, and where so many others have. that's what some books are. They are an infinite other world that we can create for us. It has a story that can make you laugh and cry and scream because of cliffhangers that make death seem like a lovely gift of sorts. Then you realize that you will never be a part of this world; this place that is so close to your heart yet so far away, and it breaks you. Your parents look at you and wonder whats wrong but they will not understand, because they're imaginations have withered and died over the years, and it's so very sad but so very true. This is one of those series. Percy Jackson and his wonderful world are a secret place for us readers that know how to find and bring it to life.

This book changed my life. When I was a child, I had a hard time reading because nothing was entertaining enough to keep me still. In the summer of the fourth grade, my third grade brother told me it was amazing. So, I took his word for it and started reading. Once I started I couldn't stop. I ate that book in just one month. It was the first book I read in my life. Now, I can read a six hundred paged book in six to seven hours, knowing exactly what happened. Thank you for the existence of this book. I wouldn't be able to read without it.

This is one of my favorite books, why is Divergent, Percy Jackson, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and The Hunger Games in front of this. Alice In Wonderland is a classic that cannot be replaced, I think we can all agree that there is nothing else like this. I am disappointed in modern day people, Lewis Carroll was a genius who made a masterpiece. Why are all these new books coming to the top?! I can understand The Bible, but come on Harry Potter?

I'm a fan of all the books you mentioned. Alice In Wonderland is a masterpiece, like you said. - talanartemis

It's great to be Christian, and we Christians should strive to be like Jesus as much as we can. I don't think, however, that you have to post only nice comments if you're a Christian. If a book is bad or overrated, I feel free to say so and don't feel I've broken any commandments or sinned by doing so. There's nothing wrong with telling the truth, even if it hurts. And you're right, the Bible is deservedly number one.

It is a classic. Alice In Wonderland really shows what living really is, I guess. I love Alice In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

I like this book about how a little girl explored to an absurd and trippy world of Wonderland. From a group of animals running on circles to get dry after getting wet by tears to a Queen execute people in Wonderland by cutting off their heads.

By the way, people who talked about the Bible might be going on a wrong section.The Bible is at number 1 in this list. Plus, the Bible is non-fiction and it was written by 40 Christian people like Matthew, Mark, John, Peter, etc.

This book was voted the greatest novel of the 20th century by the National Library Association. The follow up, Go Set a Watchman, has just been released and I have read it. While it is nowhere near as good as To Kill a Mockingbird, it is still better than 95 percent of the books ranked ahead of this. If anyone seriously thinks there are 406 books better than this, let me say as kindly as I can that you wouldn't know a good book if it bit you in the ass.

How on Earth was To Kill a Mockingbird not on this list? It should be in the top 5 for sure. There is no better way to approach a controversial issue such as racism than through the eyes of a child, especially one as precocious as Scout Finch. Atticus Finch, as portrayed by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film, is widely accepted as the greatest film hero of all time.

Okay, this book is going the wrong way again. It got up to 48 and it's much better than that. Let me say it again: This book was voted BEST BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY by the NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION! The National Library Association! They might know a thing or two about good books, don't you think? That tells me this book should be top ten, not 57 and falling! Read this book, then vote! You will thank me for it, I 100 percent guarantee it!

As a Christian, it’s hard to argue the Bible, but this book is better than every other book in the top ten.

The outsiders is an amazing book. The characters are so real. Boys will like it because it has gangs and killing and reality. Girls will like it, because they will love the boys. The boys are great you just got to love them all. Twist endings and reality all over. Young author that wrote the book from her own experience. If it is this high on the board you have to take in to consideration that it is an amazing book. (Girls will love the boys, Boys will love the violence gangs and realty)

I am a girl, and I like the violence and killing. Not for their looks though. - AnimeDrawer

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a fantastic book that I could not get enough of! It most certainly belongs on this list! Many adults and children have claimed this book to be their favorite of all time and it certainly is evident as to why with the messages of friendship and social class without being a fluff fest. Plus, the thrilling action and sob worthy scenes that actually make you sob! This book is 10/10 and a great read for anyone!

Amazing book with great cast of characters and actors in the movie go DALLY

17? No way this is the greatest coming of age story of all time. This book is set in the 1960s however the story is so real that everyone especially teenagers can relate to today. This book should at least be in the top 5

If you're one of those people who voted on diary of a wimpy kid, shame on you. I'm not saying that it's a bad book, there is just much better books in the world such as this masterpiece. Stephen King is my favorite author and this is one of his books at King's finest. Also, to everybody who has and hasn't read this book, I recommend IT. Though it will give you the chills at some times, its an amazing read. Those are by far the 2 best King novels.

There is an infestation of teenagers here. Divergent? Maze Runner? Hunger Games? These people don't understand what real literature is. Though it is long, The Stand is an amazing book, a must read for anyone.

Indeed, so many teenagers who just read that crap and have terrible tastes - DatRabidSlushie

MY FAVORITE BOOK (tied with it) The fact that the hunger games, and diary of a wimpy kid are higher blows my mind

Wonderful book. Characters that are mourned and well remembered when you regretfully turn the last page.

If you have got here and still think this list is a genuine representation of humanity's literary achievements, then let me tell you it isn't. I might as well vote for my favourite book in the process. Let's see if this masterpiece can get to the top 20.

This is the worst list ever made.

The hunger games warriors and it are ahead of literary masterpiece there good books but this is a master class novel

This book is the best by an American author, and the best war book of all time.

Goblet of Fire should be way higher. Sure, it might not be as awesome as Deathly Hallows but it should be in the top ten. It is better than Prisoner of Azkaban and Philosophers stone so I voted for it because I thought it deserved to be higher.

I know this is probably the most underrated Harry Potter book know to man, but it is still for me the most memorable. The storyline is so interesting and it keeps you hooked to the book. I spent a whole summer reading it and I loved it!

How this book is so low down I will never know, it's just amazing, almost as good as The deathly Hallows.